Weather ok?

Well, today is a cool, not that I'm cool, but the weather, it rained for at least half of the day. Although it was raining, not drizzle, our guys still insisted to go out of the company building for lunch, and not in our in-house cafeteria. Yup, definitely must carry umbrellas. Yes, we are mad about food, but not to the extend of getting wet all over under this weather condition without cover.

One of the play stocks I bought last week did rose in price, I tried to sell it, but not successful. It seems like not that easy to play, huh? If I had sold it, I should be able to make two to three hundred play dollars. Too bad, try again tomorrow, hope it go up high high....

IT People

People who wants to get into IT must be passionate in the things or work they intend to embark on, willingness to learn and pick up new skills is also important. They should also have good technical skills, communication skills, analytical skills and 'never say die' spirit.

IT is all about the survival of the fittest, never stop learning attitude and making sacrifices, e.g. leisure time. There are two paths you may take, either towards the Management or Consultancy. A strong foundation in hands-on implementations is essential and necessary if you want to take the Consultancy path. As for the Management path, you must be able to speak well and understand the implications of each project or implementation from the business perspective.

My good Friend called...during lunch

My good Friend called me today when I was having lunch with my colleagues.

Usually, I will call her or she will call me during the weekend's late at night. This time she said she may not be able to call me this Saturday as she has been invited to a friend's gathering. I guessed she is really enjoying life there.

Recently, I took part in a stocks challenge game, it's pretty fun. How it works is that, once you sign up, you will be given $80,000 virtual dollars to buy and sell shares. You don't really buy or sell shares in the real stock market, you are just simulated it, that means what you do will not influence the actual market condition. I manage to buy and then sell one stock, made a 'profit' of few hundred bucks, but overall, I'm still in the red, as I still have other stocks going south currently. Let's see whether I have better luck next week.

Share a statement

My friends, if you are seeing this....

Just want to share a statement by Andrew Matthews, as quoted from his book "Follow your heart: Finding purpose in your life and work."

"Love is allowing people to be in your life out of choice."

How true....what do you think???

This is my 50th posts so far. I think I got to slow down a bit, else, people will think that I don't have a life other than blogging. hmmm....

Diarrhea!

I don't know what I ate this morning, perhaps, it was the small chocolate bar I had for breakfast. It was terrible. Diarrhea! Diarrhea! I hated having this, it was like somebody squeezing and twisting your stomach, the pain was there.

I had to visit the toilet for a couple of times. Luckly enough, the diarrhea symptom didn't last very long, by noon time, I managed to keep it under 'control'.

I didn't want to take a risk, usually, I would have spicy food for lunch, but, this time round, I had noodle with soup, something light and non-spicy, mild for the stomach. I also drank plenty of fluid, especially water, good for the stomach, as it may still be weak during the recovery stage.

Give your best!

"You give your best not because your need to impress people. You give your best because that's the only way to enjoy your work." - Andrew Matthews in his book, Follow your Heart: Finding purpose in your life and work.

I think what Andrew said is true, whatever work you do, don't just do it for the sake of doing it, but being passionate in it and always strive to put in your best effort and enjoy it!

There's also a saying: If your don't like your current job, either change your attitude or change your job!

Meeting in session

I don't really like meetings. A meeting could take up two to three hours, time simply pass without you knowing and you are anxiously waiting for it to end so that you can do other more important tasks.

The team always have a meeting at least once a month, provided everyone got the time. We met up today in the afternoon. The last time we had was four months back, so there were a lot of stuffs to update everyone. I was the chairman for the meeting, meaning other than the Project Manager, I do the most talking. Usually, in a meeting like this, you try not to talk too much, the more you say, the more things you have to do and your name will appear everywhere in the minutes of meeting. Follow-ups, follow-ups...

The meeting lasted two hours, just the right time to go home.

See you, my Friend!

Today is Monday, first day of the work week.

My good Friend flew off earlier tonight, I could not send her off because I had to attend a seminar. She called me at the airport just before entering the departure gate.

It is going to be another three months plus before I will get to see her again.

Movie: The Host, Part 2

One night, while at the hospital, Pak, the guy's surname, received a call from his daughter, and she told him she was in a dark and dirty sewer. Pak and his family (father, sister and brother) decided to run away from the hospital and were successful. His sister was a national archer, by the way. While fighting with the Host, their father was killed by it. Pak was again caught by the military, while his siblings escaped.

Then, while escaping, he met a friend, who helped him to access a computer to retrieve the location where his daughter had called him with her handphone, but he found that his friend was actually trying to betray him for the money rewards. While escaping from the police, he SMS his brother, in turn, messaged the sister.

Pak managed to reach the sewer but his was too late, the Host had already swallowed his daughter and a little boy. At this time, the government had already decided to use the "Yellow Agent", a chemical warfare smoke to destroy the Host. Pak was devastated when he pulled his daughter and the boy out from the monster's mouth. With the help of his siblings, they burned the monster and he stabbed the monster in the mouth, it died.

The little boy was found to be still alive, Pak took him in and treated him like his own son....The End.

This story is good, better than Predator and Alien, I would give it a five out of five for good storyline and unconventional ending.

Movie: The Host, Part 1

I watched this Korean movie in the cinema with DR this afternoon.

This story happened in South Korea, it started with a laboratory researcher (of a US Army camp) who was told to pour bottles of toxic and bio-hazardous chemical solution into the drainage system via the washing basin. The toxic solution eventually went to the Han River, the main river dividing Seoul.

Then, one day, people who were holidaying along the Han River noticed something hanging on one of the bridges. This 'thing' dropped into the river and started swimming towards the crowd. Stamping and swallowing human along its way.

There was this guy who was helping his dad run a stall there, tried running away from the 'thing' with his teenage daughter, but unfortunately, she was 'caught' by it and dragged away to the other side of the river. He thought that he had lost her daughter. As usual, the police and military were called in to cordon off the place. The guy, his father and the people at the scene were taken to the hospital for check-up....

Just back...

Just came back from outing with my good Friend.

Yeah, didn't go for my weekend's afternoon swim today. Today was a warm and humid day. Easily tired out in just a few hours of walking and shopping.

First, we went to a local temple and prayed, and then went to a food centre for lunch. She had a Malay dish called 'Mee Goreng', meaning 'Fried noodles', I had Indian Rojak, basically, fried flour stuffs with mixed prawns, potatoes and green chilli. It was good, I like the taste, have never been out for so long, so all I ate were good enough. DR had her usual milk tea, while I had a Lychee cold drink. MMmmm....yummy.....taste so good!

When I came back home, I had the Chinese Vegetarian 'Bee Hoon', a kind of noodles cooked with heavy gravy, chinese style.

What to do today?

I reckon today should be a fine day, although I can still see that the haze is back, the news say it's from Kalimantan, that is more than 1000km away, the wind does play a part.

What I want to do today? hmm...most like still go for my weekend run in the afternoon, yup that's right, provided it doesn't rain later. After that, if there's still time, I will go for a swim. Then most likely, in the late afternoon, I will be out with my good Friend, she said she wants to buy some IT gadgets.

My good Friend is back! Just for a short time..

My good Friend is BACK! She surprised me.

She called me this afternoon, I saw the Caller-ID system was showing a number from her home's phone. I picked up the call, and was so surprised to hear her voice, nay, couldn't be her, but it is her alright. I was really stunned! Almost lost dropped my cup of tea.

She told me she was back because she missed home, and she will also be attending a concert here.

Difficult to be a supervisor

It's really tought to be a supervisor, the expectations are different as compared to a junior staff or subordinate. Not only that, you are also the good and the bad guy, the middle man between the Management and your team.

As I have written earlier, if I got a choice now, I would rather get out of the team and be my own boss. Do things that I really like, and being independent, nobody to take care, just the systems. Hardware systems don't talk back to you or show you faces.

Why then did I want to be a supervisor in the first place? Initially, I thought I could do well in a supervisory position, I mingled well with the team members, I was focused, so, I volunteered to be one. I have no regrets however on the decision that I made, but now, I feel it may be the time for me to move on....

Seeking Knowledge

You know, life itself is a test. We are always being tested on every decisions that we make everyday till the end of our time. One wrong move, and you fall into a ditch, how fast you recover depends on you next decision. Do you just want to rest awhile, then climb out or recover your steps immediately? It's your choice.

When we fail, we learn, we seek understanding and find out what went wrong. The knowledge that we acquired over time helps us to make better decisions.

We all will grow older and because of that, we should let things take its course, even when it really hurts. Yes, it may be painful, but we do learn and understand from every experiences. Be happy, just let it go....

Movie: Big Wave, No Escape

This story is about a man who was jealous of his disciple getting the Nobel Prize, and he didn't. He claimed that he had taught his junior what he knew. In order to destroy his disciple's reputation, he decided to set plots against him.

His junior was a missile weapon system researcher and developer. What the jealous man did was to make use of his junior's knowledge to create guided missile system to 'slam' into deep sea mountains, collapsing them and create Tsunami which could destroy coastal cities. He also puposely framed his junior, making the authories go after him.

In ending, his junior finally found out where the missiles were fired from, but he had to stop the missiles that had already launched. The worst of all, the jealous man was accidently killed by the Police, the passwords to access the missile system were lost. Luckly, he managed to logon to the system by guessing the passwords and make the missiles divert their courses and save the cities.

I think this is a nice movie, innovative story, although no big name casts, I will give it a three out of five Stars for good movie entertainment.

The choice

If I am given a choice to choose between being a Supervisor leading a team of IT people and as a Engineer doing Systems stuff. I would choose the latter.

Leading a team of IT people is no fun, they can be systems administrators, network administrators, DBA, application or middleware administrators. As a Supervisior, you must be able to absorb and digest information fast, because you are dealing with people of different technical competencies, communication skills, attitudes and habits. You should also be alert and frequently read up so that you will be always stay at least two steps ahead of the rest. You can be flexible but commanding at certain critical times when you need to get things done your way which is more effective.

Being a Engineer, I want to be one who does implementations. You are free from most of the administrative work of a Supervisor, you are independent, very technically competent and knowledgeable. It will be definitely be more satisfying getting jobs done. This is the type of people whom others will seek advice when they are stuck with something.

If only I have a choice.....pretty soon I hope....

Stingray Kills 'Crocodile Hunter' Irwin

Just read the news......

Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.

Irwin was at Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state, shooting a segment for a series called "Ocean's Deadliest" when he swam too close to one of the animals, which have a poisonous bard on their tails, his friend and colleague John Stainton said.

"He came on top of the stingray and the stingray's barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart," said Stainton, who was on board Irwin's boat at the time.

Crew members aboard the boat, Croc One, called emergency services in the nearest city, Cairns, and administered CPR as they rushed the boat to nearby Low Isle to meet a rescue helicopter. Medical staff pronounced Irwin dead when they arrived a short time later, Stainton said.

Smoking is bad!

One thing I really don't like is people smoking next to me, especially in lifts. Nowadays, you will see people young and old, men and women, smoking as if noboby's business.

What the Government did here was to raise the cigarette tax, but that didn't keep smokers from smoking. In fact, there had been an increase in the number of cases of cigarettes smuggling.

A number of occasions where I saw girls who are not bad looking but, the moment you see cigarette sticks in between their fingers, yucks! Smoking is bad for the body, particular, the lungs, the teeth, and every parts. Why people still want to smoke even though they know it's no good? Well, maybe they are stressed? Got too much money, and no where to burn? Don't know.......

Movie: Buried Alive 2

The second movie I watched on TVUPlayer had a very simple plot. It was about a man who betrayed his wife and tried to poisoned her to 'death'. The poison was not exactly effective, it was something that could temporary 'kill' his victim but not permanent death. His wife was buried, but later she woke up in the coffin and opened her way out of the burial site. She wanted revenge.

While on a leisure boat, the man and his mistress were locked in the cabin by his 'dead' wife. With the cabin sealed, water vaults were opened to let water into the boat. The boat slowly sunk to the bottom of the sea, with the two bad guys still trapped in.....

Jack and the Bean Stalk Part 2

..and reach a Land. He saw people without food to eat and went hungry, they were suffering.

He was brought in front of a council and judged upon. He was told of the real story of 'Jack and the bean stalk'. It was Jack's ancestor, Jack, who betrayed the people by stealing the Goose, which can lay golden eggs and the Harp, which play musical scores so that the goose can lay the eggs. This two things are important to the survival of the land, without them, the people will suffer, land will become infertile, no greens will grow on the land. Yes, he also caused the death of the big Giant. No, the Giant was actually not the bad guy, Jack was!

Jack (of Today), was to be executed because of the crime his ancestor committed. But, he was lucky, he managed to escape with the girl to today's earth. By then, although they had only stay in the Land for seven days, but in reality, it was already seven years his time.

Together with the girl he loved, they managed to salvage the golden Goose and Harp from the bad guys and brought it back to the Land. The Land became propers again.

In ending, he united with the girl and live happy ever after....

Jack and the Bean Stalk Part 1

I recently found out a software that I can install to watch free TV or cable channels from the Internet, it's call 'TVUPlayer'. The catch is, you must have a broadband connection for the video streaming to work well. Depending on when you use it, at times (e.g. dinner hrs), you will still see sound or video lagging, but, nevermind, it will recover.

Just last night, I watch two movies, the first called 'Jack and the bean stalk'. Hey, I know what you are thinking, but this show is not exactly like the original one. Yes, the story is about the same, but of Today context and also it retold what actually happened in the story 'Jack and the Bean Stalk'. Here's the story:

Jack (of modem day), met a girl. One day, the girl left. Only later on that he found the girl was actually the same girl whom his ancestor, Jack (of the original story), met 390 years ago! He found out about it when, well, he planted a bean and it grew stalk that reached the sky, he climbed the stalk.....

More than 30 posts!

Wow, time flies, I have reached my 31st posting!

I remember that it was in July, in fact, at the end of the month when I decided to start my own blog. I didn't have much knowledge about blogging, having seen and heard about it on newspapers, other people's blogs and TV. I also didn't have the experience or technical knowledge to start one.

I happened to came across www.blogger.com by chance, so, I thought of starting a simple one. With the guides provided by the website, finally, managed to get the ball rolling. My objective is to shared with everyone, not just about myself, but also things I do and most important of all, the photos and pictures I took with my camera. That's all....

Natural disasters

Heard about the Hurricanes in Mexico and US? The heat waves in Europe and China? Or the haze condition in South East Asia? When is it going to end? It doesn't look good these days, something is just not right about the global climate. It seems to be changing by the day, and for the worst.

Expansive growth of heavy industries in many countries and massive clearance of forests for farming might have contributed to the atmospheric temperature changes around the world. This is no good, but, what are we doing about it?....

It's Saturday!

No work today.

So, as usual, I went for a jog. My pace was faster than normal, don't know why, but, just feel like running faster.

I went for a swim in the afternoon, not many people at the pool, mostly guys and kids. Swam for half lap and walked up to a place next to the pool to tan.

The Sun was not beaming too bright, thought it was going to rain soon, but it didn't, it was just the movement of the clouds, occasionally hiding the "big brother" behind them.

After about 15mins, I continued the usual swimming routine of going for another four and a half laps before resting for awhile and then leave the pool to wash up. By this time, the pool was already crowded with kids learning swimming from their instructors, me pondered the time I started learning how to swim when I was young.

Fire drill!

Our company had a fire drill today. Everyone of us had to stop what we were doing and clear away from the office buildings. We had to walk about 100 metres to a holding area, where the Fire Wardens will check off our names on their namelists, making sure that everyone had 'cleared' the disaster area.

Well, it was a good exercise, it made us walk and stay under the sun for awhile, usually we stayed indoors with aircons, so, don't got a lot of opportunity to be 'tanned'.

After about 30 mins later, we were allowed to go back to our office buildings. End of exercise.

I found out what happened

I know what happened to be my PC. It was because of the Windows Automatic Update, every time I started up the Internet connection, it was trying to connect to Microsoft's updates to look for fixes and patches.

Once, it got connected and it came out with 21 patches to patch, so l let it continue to download the patches and install on my PC. After that, I did a reboot, wah la, it is now back to normal!

So, folks, next time you find that your PC is slowing down, do check your Automatic Updates.

What is IT Governance?

What is the definition of 'IT Governance'?

I think it is the proper management and usage of IT resources to achieve optimised benefits or good returns from IT investments.

Good IT Governance involves not just the IT managers or the people, e.g. System, Network Administrators, DBA, who manage the resources, but also non-IT management or corporate users who use the IT resources.

Every users of IT services and resources should be aware of the proper ways of using them and not mis-use, mis-manage, under utilise or over-expecting.

Management should ensure that there must be viable objectives to IT implmentations, and set goals to attain these objectives. Good monitors should be setup to ensure that these implmentations truly meet organisation business needs and directions.

Countryside photo

This picture is nice, have a look. It's a mountain view.

Do you remember what place is this? Frankly, I don't remember. Feel the urge to climb that mountain? Yes? I don't think it's very high, worth the try if you want to.

The weather then, was cool, with light, soothing air blowing pass you, just ponder whether is this a suitable place for a second home?

If you see any repeated pictures posted in here, let me know so that I can replace them with new ones. I have some more, so I won't run of pictures so soon.

PC problem

I just don't know what's wrong with my PC, starting up was ok, but when I tried to open up the browser, it took minutes! I checked the Task Manager, it showed that there was this svchost process running at close to 100% CPU busy. What happened? Maybe there are spywares in my PC, I'm going to do a spyware scan later. It has never been like this before, could be that it's time to re-install the OS.

Kind of difficult?

It is always a tough job teaching and passing on the knowledge to people who are new to the field. I have tried to stress the importance of having a sense of resposibility and urgency. They are important, yes. Why?

When a problem crop up, and you know it's your area, you should take ownership of the issue and do your best to resolve it and find out the root cause. Don't wait for people to solve it for you, and you just see. You won't learn much by just 'seeing', you got to hands on, do it. Prove to youself and the rest that you are capable to solve problems. Don't think that you know everything, as long as you never get your hands dirty, you will never become technically competent. To gain people's trust, you got to show them what you have and what you can do.

Yes, it works!

Alright! Cheers, man..... managed to get the license key thing work with the software. Still got to monitor the systems for the next few weeks. Just want to make sure that it really works fine, you will never know, problems may surface after some time!

The weather is still not that good today, too humid. I can see the haze is coming back, visibility is not so good. Let's hope that our neighbouring country's government will do something about that soon. This is definitely, totally not healthy.

I got to work tomorrow, some servers needs to do OS patching, should take some time to complete. I think I will get the other new team mate do it.

Pluto is no longer considered a Planet!

Cut out this article from an online News website:

Astronomers Say Pluto Is Not a Planet

The decision by the prestigious international group spells out the basic tests that celestial objects will have to meet before they can be considered for admission to the elite cosmic club.

Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight.

After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930. The new definition of what is - and isn't - a planet fills a centuries-old black hole for scientists who have labored since Copernicus without one.

For now, membership will be restricted to the eight "classical" planets in the solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

Much-maligned Pluto doesn't make the grade under the new rules for a planet: "a celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a ... nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit."

Pluto is automatically disqualified because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune's.

Show you this photo

Hey, just want to show you this picture. Pretty sight, huh?

It looks even more awesome at the spot where the photo was taken. Usually, for people living in the city or urban areas, you don't get to see this, you got to go outside the city.

Luckily, the weather is good, else would not have been able to take this picture. It was supposed to be winter, but it does not snow there. The humidity and the temperature were just nice, not too cold or too hot. In fact, because of the breeze that was blowing, you feel so relax and enjoyable. Free from nuisances, pressures, noises, pollutions and the most important of all, work.

You got to go there sometimes. Trust me, you will like it.

Work In Progress...

Remember the team member I was talking about in my previous blog entry? Well, he's still surviving, doing System stuff and some Database things. I do see some improvements in his work, and he's still working very harding to learn and pick-up new knowledge, then put them into real life work. In general, I believe he can do System support.

I have given him some requests to do, scripting stuffs, good for him. I do help him along, giving him some pointers and tips, but, hey, I do find things that he knows, well, no harm learning for each other, right?

The new planets?

I cut this out from a email sent to me via newsletter:

"What is a planet? For years, astronomers have been debating that question, with the status of tiny Pluto hanging in the balance. Finally, an answer is in the offing. Today, the International Astronomical Union's Planet Definition Committee announced their proposal for a new, official definition of "planet." If the proposal is approved by a vote of IAU astronomers on August 24th, the number of planets in the Solar System would swell from nine to twelve. And, yes, Pluto would be among them. Get the full story at http://spaceweather.com . "

Working on Sunday

Got up at about 9am, clean up and then took a cab to my work place. Due to the increase in the terrorism awareness, we have to take safety precaution to keep the Systems safe from cyber attacks. What we (with another system guy) did today was to patch up four of the servers which are running Windows Operating System.

Managed to complete the patching by 1pm. Went for a swim after that, it was pretty hot afternoon, but good for getting skin-tanned under the sun.

See movie

I finally had the time to watch a movie last night. It was called 'The break up', starring Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston. It was pretty nice show about a couple living together in a condo, then one day, had a big fight over who should do the dishes and other things. And then, she can't stand it anymore and decided to split, but neither of them wanted to move out of the house. She tried to spike him by getting her Dates to fetch her from home. He retailated by calling his friend to bring in the 'gals', and party all night.

Time comes, when he realised what was wrong, he had been taking things for granted, and did not show appreciation of the things she had done for him. He wanted to make amend, but, it was too late, she "don't feel the same anymore". So, in the end, they sold the house and splited. He continued to work on his city tour business and she went travelling, until a time when they met again, "Hi", "hello", "how's things?". In the ending, they didn't get back together.

The moral of the story? Do appreciate what your partner do for you. It's not about what you like to do alone, or what others do for you, but "do what both of you want to and love to do".

Knowledge Transfer

I got this opportunity to pass on what I know on System Admin support to one of our new guys. He is not from the IT or Computing background. He is interested to do database because he has a certification in that, but also don't mind doing system stuff.

For the past few weeks, I have been observing his work, I noticed he is more of a system guy, ie. can excel better in this area. I have started to hand-over some of the systems for him to administer, at the same time, do knowledge transfer.

Being without a good foundation of IT or computing is a disadvantage, but I can see that he is picking up. Well, Roman is not built in a day, likewise, I don't expect him to master everything in just a few weeks.

There goes the new handphone

I got a call from the handphone company where, few days back, I bought the new handphone through their website. They told me that my current line's plan is not eligible for the purchase of the 3G handset that comes with a 3G SIM card. I must do a upgrade of the plan to a more expensive one. Ok, then, I told them to cancel my purchase, I just don't want to pay for that, since I don't think I will be subscribing to the 3G Services for the time being. Save the money for the future.

The picture, that's the 12 Apostles site, Great Ocean Road, Victoria State.

This is Monday

Most hectic day of the week. System checks and stuff like that makes me tired at the end of the day.

In the late afternoon , had a meeting with the management, one of our team mates had prepared a change, OS upgrade on a critical production server. Really, now then I know it can be difficult to urge with the people on the top, pretty demanding, tried hard to convince them to grant approval to go ahead with the change. At the end of the hour long meeting, approval was finally given, but on condition that we brush up on the continguency plan.

Grandpa's birthday dinner

Just back from Grandpa's birthday dinner. About 30 plus people, mostly kids, had Chinese-Thai Cuisines, Ala-Cart buffet dinner, steamed fish, Tom-yam soup, fried prawns, mushrooms with tofu, not bad.

Usually, I'm very particular about service, so, I think it was ok, we don't have to wait too long, the service staffs were good too.

Rest and relax

Later, I will be going for a run, it makes me feel good after that, especially doing it around noon time, with the sum beaming brightly. If time permits, I will also go for a swim, stretch my arm muscles a bit.

Don't feel like doing anything else today. Guess I will just stay home, surf net and do some reading. Saturday is the best time to spend lazy around doing what makes you feel comfortable and relaxing.

The Haze is back!

It has always happened at around this time every years, haze or smoke blown from our neighbouring countries. Farmers clearing their lands of unwanted vegetation by burning. This time round may not be as bad as in 10 years ago, that time was worst, there was strong burning smell in the air, visibility was pretty bad too. It rained last night, so the weather is slightly cooler, with the Sun covered in the clouds.

Getting a new handphone

Just bought a new Nokia handphone from a online shop by extending my line contract for another two years. I have been eyeing the phone for the last three weeks, now that it's being sold cheaper after midnight, I think it should be worth getting it. The phone comes with a free bluetooth headset and will be delivered next week.

Today is a holiday here, good, good, get to rest once in awhile.

The Sydney bridge seen at a distance away...

Not so good Technical Support

Software issues, license key issues, this company that I have been working with, their tech support was really not so good. I guess they have been 'eating' too many other small companies, grow too big an organisation, services getting from bad worst, and charges more expensive.

The Job scheduling problem really puzzled me, the whole system has been running fine for so many years, should be pretty stable now, yet have never seen such many issues surface in just one week . What I can do now is wait for their TS to response, and they are really slow....*sigh*.

Tilt the picture 90 degree clockwise to see the right orientation.

It's Friday!

How time flies, it's Friday again. What did I do today?

I got a call from the DBA's Head asking me whether our DBAs are coping well and also whether we could spare one of our DBAs for an overseas posting for a couple of months. After consulting with our senior DBA, he said ok. Well, no harm helping him out, because you will never know when is the next time you need someone's help.

Nay, no go movie for today. Reached home early, was watching TV till I dozed off. Hey, I thought I didn't do much work today, how come so tired? Beats me!

Showtime!

I just got a free movie voucher, and I reckoned watching a show after work at night, the Superman Returns. Searching for the show time at the Cinema website, couldn't find it. It's no longer showing! There's also another good one, the Lake House, I like the casts, Sandra Bullocks and Keanu Reeves. I remember sometime back, there was this Korean movie, the storyline was similar. Nay, I didn't get to watch any movie tonight.

That, in view, is the Darlington Harbour, Sydney. Photo taken from the Sydney Tower.

BB06: The Winner

http://bigbrother.3mobile.com.au/diary
/day_100.asp#3521

Nope, not the Three Sisters (photo above).

I guessed it wrong! Jamie is the winner. What a lucky man. Camilla, you did well too! Thanks heaps for all the fun !

Watching time passes..

While at work today, I found that I have nothing much to do. Basically, just watching time passes...

Actually, I was waiting for this tech support guy to settle a software license issue, and he said (in his email) that he will try to resolve by today! That kept me waiting and waiting....did he forget??

Any way, the photo, that's the Natural Bridge, right in a forest. Standing next to it is like you are in paradise.